Arab contacts to debate a comprehensive peace initiative

A high ranking Arab diplomat at the Arab League told the al-Arab al-Youm daily issued on Wednesday that inter-Arab contacts are being made now to debate a comprehensive Arab initiative for making peace with Israel and this initiative will be debated during the next Arab summit in Beirut.

This diplomat stressed that the Arab states are currently seeking to invest the international interest and the European and American reactions towards the thoughts debated by Saudi Arabia's crown prince and the international efforts to revive the peace process and to get out of the cycle of violence and tension which threatens international peace and security. And this will be made through proposing an Arab peace project basically based on the vision of Saudi Arabia and several Arab states which had recently made important contacts.

The Arab diplomat said that the ideas included in the Arab project first of all stresses continuation of the peace process as a strategic option based on the principles of the Madrid conference and the land for peace formula and secondly Israel's total withdrawal from all Arab territories occupied in 1967.